Per Gizmodo – Spyware on every Android (and possibly Blackberry and Nokia) phone out there…

If you have any decently modern Android phone, everything you do is being recorded by hidden software lurking inside…

Carrier IQ’s software is installed in your phone at the deepest level. You don’t know it’s there. You are never warned this is happening. You can’t opt-in and you certainly can’t opt-out.

The commercial spyware sits between the user and the applications in the phone so, no matter how secure and private your apps are, the spyware intercepts anything you do. From your location to your web browsing addresses and passwords to the content of your text messages.

This even happens using a private Wi-Fi connection instead of the carrier 3G or 4G connection.

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Hi! I’m Jim, an IT guy. Been in IT for about 20 years. Have worn many different hats over the years, from working at a NOC, managing a LAN/WAN network, a network analyst at an integration company, a desktop support tech. In my current incarnation, I’m calling myself a “Solutions Architect”, managing a Managed Print environment. I’m also a network admin, for the company I work for. I also started my own company on the side, JB Network Design, at the start of the Great Recession, just in case I was going to get laid off 🙂 – Always have a Plan B.